The Nemesis of NeglectCartoon. Author John Tenniel.

The "Nemesis of Neglect", an image of social destitution manifested as Jack the Ripper, stalks Whitechapel in a Punch cartoon of 1888 by John Tenniel - This Day in History: Apr 03,1888: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders occurs in Whitechapel.http://dingeengoete.blogspot.com/

Ripper. Perhaps the best known unsolved crimes of all time were perpetrated by one Jack the Ripper, aka the Whitechapel Murderer or “Leather Apron.” Jack murdered at least five (many believe more) prostitutes in the East End of London between August and November of 1888. The prostitutes didn’t have much in common aside from their profession and the fact that they were believed to have been drunk at the times of their deaths. After probably soliciting his soon-to-be victim for sex and waiting for her to drop her hands to lift her skirt, Jack grabbed her by the throat and strangled her until she was either dead or unconscious. Once the body was prone, he slit the throat and mutilated it in various ways, once even removing the kidney of a victim without damaging any of the other organs. Surprisingly, no evidence of sexual mOne of the main reasons the case is so infamous is because the press was a rising influence in London society, which was also fraught with political difficulties at the time, and the highly-literate citizenry followed closely the way the police handed the case was handled by the police and politicians. Hundreds of letters were sent to various newspapers and other recipients but only three of them led to any real clues. Two were signed “Jack the Ripper,” which is where the moniker comes from, and one included the line “From Hell,” which was then used as the title for a pretty awful 2001 movie about the case starring Johnny Depp and Heather Graham. The movie expands on the popular and salacious theory that Prince Albert Victor, also known as Eddy, was behind the murders. Other suspects included a surgeon’s son, a cotton broker and prolific diarist, a psychopathic Polish Jewish misogynist, and a doctor arrested for homosexual activity. olestation post-mortem was ever found.

One of the oldest unsolved murder cases in the world, Jack the Ripper instilled fear into the heart of Victorian London & still captures our imagination today. Between Aug & Nov 1888, 5 prostitutes were murdered in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. Everything about the murders seems to be shrouded in mystery, from the identity of the killer to the letters that were sent to the police. Even the number of victims is under scrutiny.

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Anyone who is familiar with Jack the Ripper knows this pub, Ten Bells, is where the prostitutes frequented. I had the pleasure of visiting it as well and having a gin and tonic on a "Jack the Ripper Tour" in the White Chapel district of London.

Photos, Belle Pub, Ten Belle, London Pubs, Whitechapel London

Ten bells pub, white chapel

The Ten Bells is a public house at the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields in the East End of London. It is sometimes cited as being notable for its association with two victims of Jack the Ripper; Annie Chapman and Mary Kelly, but is best known now as a uniquely decorated, lively and trendy East London pub.

London East End 19th century

Street in Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper's London

Victorian London slums streets

Dorset Street in 1902 Whitechapel. To understand what it was like to live here, read Jack London's book "People of the Abyss". London disguised himself as a Londoner seeking employment or a place to sleep, and wrote of his experiences living among the poor.

Berner Street 1888 From 'The Pictorial News' 6 October 1888 Berner Street, now called Henriques Street, was the scene of what is generally accepted as the third murder committed by Jack the Ripper. Berner Street is a narrow street leading in an North to South direction off Commercial Road, Whitechapel.

In the illustration [left] is shown the Commercial Road in 1851 spanned at Stepney Station, which was then in Rose Lane, by a bow-string bridge eighty feet in length. At the time it was said that, "notwithstanding the great length of the viaduct and the material [iron] of which it was constructed, it has a light and picturesque appearance." On account of its narrowness it was replaced by a wider bridge in 1874-6 (the work taking two years) and afterwards re-erected across a ravine in Switzerland